Over 350 Institutions Credit Competency-Based Work. Do You?
NPR
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10/7/14
“In a traditional college degree program, assessments and course requirements are typically decided by individual professors or within a department. Which can lead to wide variations in expectations, workload and grading... Freed of the credit-hour constraint, competency-based programs need to be a lot more rigorous and transparent about designing assessments. Otherwise, they risk turning into diploma mills.”
Mentoring and Deep Learning Lead to Future Work-Life Engagement
Gallup
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10/7/14
“Six critical elements during college jumped off the pages of our research as being strongly linked to long-term success in work and life after graduation. Three of these elements relate to experiential and deep learning... But the three most potent elements linked to long-term success for college grads relate to emotional support... If graduates strongly agree with these three things, it doubles the odds that they are engaged in their work and thriving in their overall well-being.”
What Technology Will and Won’t Do To Schools
NAIS
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9/18/14
“As educators, we increasingly recognize that our institutions are not immune to the technological forces that have influenced almost every other industry that serves us... we are more likely to think that technology means the end of our schools and all the characteristics of them that we hold dear. This will likely not be the case.”
Professional Insight Comes from Mixing Perspectives
Misc Magazine
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9/10/14
“Seeing the problem through another discipline’s lenses gives one the permission to think outside the norms and boundaries of one’s own... In most large organizations, this is a fundamental challenge. Coming out of your functional silo to roll up your sleeves with colleagues from another one is often an exercise in defensive posturing, rather than constructive conflict... Organizations that cannot breach the silo walls when necessary are ill-equipped to achieve breakthroughs of any kind whatsoever.”